Feature Index

Behind the beautiful interface, Squarespace is an incredibly rich publishing platform.|Here, you can find an exhaustive list of everything the Squarespace platform can do.

Full Feature Index

Squarespace, while presented elegantly, is an incredibly rich publishing platform.Here, you can find a full list of everything the Squarespace platform can do.

Designs

Modern Templates – Each Squarespace template design has been crafted by our world-class design team. Our template designs are created with modern browsers and mobile devices in mind, and employ the latest HTML, CSS and Javascript techniques.

Template Switching – Squarespace allows you to install multiple templates on to a single website and work on multiple designs at once.

Designed for Any Purpose – Every Squarespace template design supports all major content types, including Pages, Galleries, Blogs, Commerce, Calendars, and more.

Style Editor – With hundreds of customizable settings, including fonts, colors, and page configurations, every Squarespace website can be made to look unique with just a few clicks.

Built-in Mobile Websites – Every design automatically includes a unique mobile experience that matches the overall style of your website, so your content will look great on every device, every time. If desired, you can disable the mobile view from Website Manager.

Free Typekit Fonts – Squarespace has partnered with Typekit to provide every customer with a free selection of the highest quality fonts available on the web. Use Typekit fonts on your site without embedding font kits or paying additional fees.

Free Google Fonts – Squarespace includes a curated set of fonts from Google's font library that can be used without having to insert embed codes.

Custom CSS – Custom CSS can be applied to any template design through our built-in custom CSS editor, which also provides image and font file storage for CSS assets.

Example Content Restore – Easily restore example content that came with your original template at any time.

Image Manager

Responsive Image Loader – Squarespace generates several scaled versions of each original image file uploaded. Our image loader detects and selects the appropriate image size to load for every device and screen - including Apple devices with Retina Displays.

Progressive Image Loading – Squarespace ensures images on the top of a page load first, making your website faster and more responsive to visitors.

CDN Included – All images on Squarespace are hosted with a global content delivery network (CDN) that reduce load times by utilizing hundreds of geographically distributed servers.

Getty Images Integration (Squarespace 7 only) – Squarespace customers can now access over 40 million images from Getty Images’ collection of high-quality creative and editorial photos, spanning breaking news and major events. Images cost just $10 each for web use.

Image Focal Point Control – Squarespace allows you to define the focal point of every image, ensuring the perfect crop for thumbnails or resized images.

Built-in Aviary Image Editor – All images hosted on Squarespace can be edited directly within your browser using an integrated Aviary editor. Crop, resize, rotate, adjust brightness and contrast, and much more.

Lightbox Presentation – Lightbox functionality is integrated into Squarespace Image Blocks and galleries, allowing for beautiful full-browser-sized imagery. Lightbox presentation of your images can be enabled with just one click.

Image SEO – You have full control over image file names across the system.

Simple Image Downloading – Squarespace can automatically fetch images from any URL and add them to your website.

Image Metadata Importing – Squarespace can auto-fill the Title, Description, and Tags for your images using the metadata you've already assigned to it in your photo management software.

Video in Galleries – All gallery collections allow for mixed media presentations, including video and audio content in addition to images in the same gallery.

Audio Collections

Audio Collections – Upload music directly to Squarespace and easily share your albums with a beautiful, integrated player and album art display. Squarespace recognizes the metadata of your audio files, so information like song title and artist name will be populated automatically.

Dropbox File Synchronization – Drop collections of images in your Dropbox account and synchronize these with Squarespace in a single click.

Easy Importing – Pull in content from Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram, 500px, or Flickr directly into any page, sidebar, or footer of your site.

Content Downloading – Content from connected services is always downloaded into Squarespace, meaning that your website is served from a single location, improving load times and allowing image content to take advantage of our built in gallery components.

Social Links – Easily display social network profile links, letting your visitors follow you on every major network. A variety of presentation styles help keep your site design consistent.

Simultaneous Posting – Squarespace can authenticate with your social profiles, letting you auto-post your content to Twitter, Facebook (personal or brand page), or Tumblr. All post entries and images are optimized and tagged properly, so descriptions and titles will be correctly referenced.

Photo Downloading / Resizing – Squarespace downloads images from any image-based social source (Flickr, 500px, etc.), resizes them, and makes them available for use in any Squarespace gallery style.

Markdown Mode – Easily embed Markdown on your site with a Markdown Block.

Automatic Image Scaling – Image Blocks automatically scale or fit images to ensure they always look right, irrespective of their placement within your content. Double-click on an image to see an overlay of the full image itself, then drag that to ensure the best crop for your images.

Automatic Text Wrapping – To wrap text around an image, simply drag your Image Block over a Text Block. When the Insert Point turns into a box, drop the Image Block.

Video Blocks – Present videos from YouTube, Vimeo and Animoto while maintaining your website style using Video Blocks with custom image overlay. The image overlay improves load speed by waiting to embed video players until a request for a video to be played.

Audio Blocks – With Audio Blocks that support podcasting, you can embed audio on your site, and tag the audio for iTunes if the Audio Block is placed into a blog.

Site Control

Site Annotations (Squarespace 7 only) – The Squarespace interface and content now live side-by-side within the browser; handy annotations appear on everything that you might want to change on your Squarespace site.

Unified Site Logins – Using a single login, contribute and manage multiple Squarespace sites at once.

Cover Pages (Squarespace 7 only)

Single Page Solutions – The cover page builder, complete with 10 new templates of its own, can be added to any existing Squarespace site and is perfect for creating quick landing pages to communicate a personal identity or promote a new product.

Template Switching – Squarespace allows you to switch your cover page templates as you see fit.

Clear Call-to-Action – Every Squarespace Cover Page can link to another page within your Squarespace website, collect more information, or add visitors to a mailing list.

Blogging

LayoutEngine Based Editing – As with all Squarespace pages, all Content Block types (text, image, gallery, video, audio, etc.) are available for use within each blog entry.

Commerce

Complete Integration – Currently available in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, with beta support in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain, the Squarespace e-commerce system works on every Squarespace template design.

Speedy Sign-up – 30-second merchant sign-up with Stripe gives you instant approval and does not require any paperwork. You can begin receiving money for purchases via direct deposit in moments.

Simple Pricing – Stripe charges 2.9% + 30¢ per successful transaction. Squarespace imposes no additional transaction fees. You can sell a single item on the Personal Plan, up to 20 items on the Professional Plan, and unlimited items on the Business Plan.

Digital and Physical Goods – Sell any type of product using a single interface. Digital goods are delivered via customized email links that expire 24 hours from delivery. Control link sharing and re-send delivery links.

Donations – Accept donations of pre-set or unbounded amounts via the Donations Block. Donations are managed on a separate page from regular orders and purchases in your site manager.

Service – Service products operate like digital products with the exclusion of file delivery. Customize the “Add to Cart” button so that it has the correct language for your products or services.

Post-Checkout Code Injection – Track customer activity using a marketing pixel or include an affiliate program tracking script.

Form Block/Product Integrations – Create complex forms and link them to any product type, so you can request detailed information from the customer for bespoke products or event registration.

LayoutEngine integration – Use a Product Block to pull items from your product collection and display anywhere on your website where LayoutEngine is supported (blog posts, pages, sidebars, and more).

Coupons, Taxes, Shipping – Create flexible coupons that apply to all orders, orders that meet a certain minimum, or for specific products. Full tax and shipping rules by region also help you run your store.

ShipStation Integration – Sync your Squarespace orders with ShipStation and print shipping labels in batch for all major carriers. ShipStation also offers integrations with fulfillment services like Shipwire and Fulfillment By Amazon.

Carrier Calculated Shipping with USPS – For U.S. customers, Squarespace offers real-time shipping estimates when you enter the dimensions of each item for sale in the store.

3D Packing Algorithms – When using Real-Time Shipping Estimates with USPS, Squarespace offers a 3D rendering of how Squarespace estimated the size and cost of each package based on the boxes you ship with and the size of your items.

Page Titles – You have full control over the ordering of your page titles, including the ability to create different title schemes for your homepage, item pages, and collection pages.

Automatic Google Sitemaps – Squarespace automatically generates and links a proper sitemap.xml, which enumerates every single URL on your site with proper priority for perfect indexing even if you use a Javascript-heavy template.

Anti-Spam – Squarespace is a paid service that aggressively fights spam. If you are using a free service that is a target for spammers, you potentially run the risk of being falsely grouped with other spam sites.

Blog App

Site Management – The Squarespace Blog app lets you manage blog comments and entries on the go. The app is currently available for iOS devices at no extra cost.

Preview and Post – The iOS version of the app allows you to format text or Markdown, tap-and-drag images within your post, and modify detailed post settings on the go.

Multiple Website Management – Manage multiple websites and view site statistics from one single app.

Metrics App

Site Analytics – Currently available for iOS devices at no extra cost, the Squarespace Metrics app presents accurate audience counts and insights.

Monitor Your KPIs – Follow the metrics that matter to you, from Page Views and unique visitors to predictions and charts for your website.

A Remarkable History – Squarespace has been in business for a decade. We've ensured the robustness of our system through real world use, not lab testing.

Plugins Not Required – No additional caching plugins are required for your Squarespace website. Everything is built in, and you do not need to optimize anything.

Content Ownership and Our Business

Content Ownership – You own all of the content you put on the Squarespace platform. We offer one-click data portability.

Ad-Free – While you can run your own ads or make money with your site if you'd like, we do not sell or run ads against your content. Your site is yours.

Squarespace Badge – If you'd like, you can display the Squarespace Badge on your website, which displays the copy “Powered By Squarespace” when you hover your mouse over it.

Privacy Protected – Squarespace has a straightforward business model and has been a profitable business for nearly a decade. We do not sell your data to make money.

No Surprises – There is no surprise pricing during checkout, no additional charges, no long term contracts (with monthly plans), no upselling, and no credit card required up front. Try us for free for 14 days, no questions asked.

Custom Domain

Free Domains Included – All annual Squarespace accounts include a free custom domain.

Seamless Domain Registration – Point the domain to both your Google Apps and Squarespace website without having to touch DNS records.

Complete Access – Programmatically access all site content via structured JSON at any time by appending

?format=json

to any Squarespace URL.

Support

24/7 Email Support – Squarespace offers email support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All customer care team members are employees in our offices, and typically respond to help requests in about an hour.

Community Answers – Squarespace provides a community-driven Q&A website where you can easily find answers to hundreds of questions, or pose a question of your own to be answered by other Squarespace experts. Visit answers.squarespace.com.

Live Chat Support – Squarespace offers live chat support during weekdays from 3am to 8pm EST.

Developer Platform

Full Code Control – Change everything from the opening doctype tag to the footer.

Git Built-in – All templates are exposed via Git, so you can work with a team and roll back changes easily.